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The Bitterlingmussel Coevolutionary Relationship in Areas of Recent and Ancient Sympatry ORIGINAL ARTICLE doi:10.1111/j.1558-5646.2010.01032.x THE BITTERLING–MUSSEL COEVOLUTIONARY RELATIONSHIP IN AREAS OF RECENT AND ANCIENT SYMPATRY Martin Reichard,1,2,3 Matej Polacik,ˇ 2 Ali Serhan Tarkan,4 Rowena Spence,1 Ozcan¨ Gaygusuz,5 Ertan Ercan,4 Marketa´ Ondrackovˇ a,´ 2,6 and Carl Smith1 1School of Biology, University of St Andrews, St Andrews, Fife KY16 8LB, United Kingdom 2Institute of Vertebrate Biology, Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, Kvetnˇ a´ 8, 603 65 Brno, Czech Republic 3E-mail: [email protected] 4Faculty of Fisheries, Mugla˘ University, Turkey 5Faculty of Fisheries, Istanbul University, Turkey 6Institute of Botany and Zoology, Faculty of Science, Masaryk University, Kotla´ rskˇ a´ 2, 611 37 Brno, Czech Republic Received November 9, 2009 Accepted March 22, 2010 Host–parasite relationships are often characterized by the rapid evolution of parasite adaptations to exploit their host, and counteradaptations in the host to avoid the costs imposed by parasitism. Hence, the current coevolutionary state between a parasite and its hosts is predicted to vary according to the history of sympatry and local abundance of interacting species. We compared a unique reciprocal coevolutionary relationship of a fish, the European bitterling (Rhodeus amarus) and freshwater mussels (Unionidae) between areas of recent (Central Europe) and ancient (Turkey) sympatry. Bitterling parasitize freshwater mussels by laying their eggs in the gills of mussel and, in turn, mussel larvae (glochidia) parasitize the fish. We found that all bitterling from both regions avoided one mussel species. Preferences among other mussel species tended to be related to local mussel abundance rather than duration of sympatry. Individual fish were not consistent in their oviposition choices, precluding the evolution of host-specific lineages. Mussels were demonstrated to have evolved strong defenses to bitterling parasitism in the area of ancient sympatry, but have no such defenses in the large areas of Europe where bitterling are currently invasive. Bitterling avoided glochidia infection irrespective of the duration of sympatry. KEY WORDS: Coevolutionary arm races, evolutionary lag, gentes, host race, specialization, symbiosis. Host–parasite relationships are often characterized by the recip- In parasites utilizing several hosts, each host species may rocal coevolutionary “arms race” in which parasites show adap- require a distinct adaptation to facilitate exploitation and each tations to maximize exploitation of their host and hosts evolve may evolve distinct counteradaptations. Consequently, it may be counteradaptations to avoid the costs imposed by parasitism, giv- adaptive for an individual parasite that successfully completes ing rise to a complex system of adaptations and counteradapta- development in a specific host to produce progeny that tend to tions (Dawkins and Krebs 1979; Thompson 1994; Poulin 2000). exploit the same host species, which may lead to the evolution of Host and parasite populations are often spatially structured and host-specific lineages (Gibbs et al. 2000; Sorenson et al. 2003; their relationship may evolve to different states across the range Malausa et al. 2005). However, host specialization is not an in- of host–parasite sympatry, depending on the historical and eco- evitable outcome of host–parasite coevolution, because it may logical contexts of the interaction (Gandon and Michalakis 2002; carry costs associated with locating appropriate specific hosts. Thompson and Cunningham 2002; Benkman et al. 2003). Hence it may also be more adaptive for parasites to remain as C 2010 The Author(s). Journal compilation C 2010 The Society for the Study of Evolution. 3047 Evolution 64-10: 3047–3056 MARTIN REICHARD ET AL. generalists and opportunistically exploit several host species niles (Smith et al. 2004). Mussels often contain eggs and embryos (Poulin 2000; Silva-Brandao˜ and Solferini 2007). from multiple ovipositions, with up to 250 bitterling embryos in Recent species expansions offer unique scenarios in which a single mussel (Smith et al. 2004). Bitterling embryos can inflict host–parasite coevolution can be compared between situations of significant fitness costs on mussels (Reichard et al. 2006) through ancient and recent sympatry between parasite and host (Lahti damage to gill epithelium, competition with mussels for oxygen, 2006). For example, the brown-headed cowbird (Molothurus and disruption of water circulation over the gills (Stadnichenko ater), a brood parasite of other birds, experienced a dramatic and Stadnichenko 1980; Smith et al. 2001; Mills and Reynolds range expansion and population increase during the last few cen- 2002). turies. This expansion brought it into contact with many new bird Unionid mussels occupy benthic freshwater habitats and fil- species and populations previously unexposed to brood parasitism ter water through their gills to obtain food and oxygen. Water by cowbirds. It appears that many recent host populations fail to enters the mussel gill through an inhalant siphon leading to the respond to parasitism and are exploited as naive hosts that have not mantle cavity. Water is passed through the gills to their inner sur- yet evolved adaptive responses to brood parasitism (evolutionary face and is channeled via the water tubes to the suprabranchial cav- lag) (Rothstein 1990; Soler and Møller 1990). ity from which it is expelled through the exhalant siphon (Bauer Here, we use a unique study system of reciprocal parasitism and Wachtler¨ 2000). The exhalant siphon forms part of the mantle in the European bitterling (Rhodeus amarus), a freshwater fish tissue and is not physically attached to the suprabranchial cavity. species that is an obligate parasite of unionid mussels, laying Hence there is no physical connection between the gills and the its eggs in the gill cavity of the mussel. The mussels used for exhalant siphon and water circulating inside the gills enters the oviposition have larval stages (termed glochidia) that are obli- mantle cavity before reaching the exhalant siphon. Female union- gate parasites of freshwater fish. Both partners display distinctive ids brood their glochidial larvae in modified sections of the gill, morphological, physiological, and behavioral adaptations for host termed marsupia, from which they discharge mature glochidia into exploitation and counteradaptations against being parasitized by the water column. Glochidia are composed of a tiny (0.10 mm in the other partner (Smith et al. 2004). The occurrence of bitterling Unio spp.) hinged valve that snaps shut on contact with fish tissue, in Central and West Europe is recent (Kozhara et al. 2007; Van typically attaching to their gills or fins (Blazekˇ and Gelnar 2006). Damme et al. 2007) and appears to have coincided with an in- When attached, the glochidia must be encysted by host tissue crease in global temperature at the end of the Little Ice Age (cf. to complete their development and remain attached for several 1850 AD) (Van Damme et al. 2007) when bitterling expanded weeks (Bauer and Wachtler¨ 2000). High levels of infection by from the Pontic region (Bohlen et al. 2006). No such range shift glochidia can be lethal to a fish (Meyers and Millemann 1977). was recorded in unionid mussels, which have been a stable compo- Four species of unionid mussels commonly co-occur with nent of the freshwater fauna of Central and West Europe through- bitterling in Central Europe and all of them may be used for out the Holocene (Kennard and Woodward 1903; Kennard 1924; oviposition; Unio pictorum, Unio tumidus, Anodonta anatina,and Watters 2000). Regardless of the absolute timing of the bitterling Anodonta cygnea. Unio crassus co-occurs with bitterling in the expansion to Central and West Europe, the mussel populations Pontic region where it replaces U. tumidus. Host mussel species used by the bitterling for oviposition in Central Europe are hosts differ in the anatomy of their gills, oxygen consumption, and with a recent sympatry in contrast to bitterling populations from flow rate of water circulating through their gills (Smith et al. the Pontic region, where bitterling and mussels have evolved in 2001; Mills et al. 2005). For example, water tubes (the inter- sympatry for at least 2 million years (Bohlen et al. 2006; Kozhara lamellar spaces in the mussel gill where bitterling eggs reside) et al. 2007; Reichard et al. 2007b; Van Damme et al. 2007). of Anodonta spp. are more complex than those of Unio spp. (Liu During reproduction male bitterling court females and lead et al. 2006). Anodonta cygnea has significantly wider gill septa them to mussels for oviposition. Females inspect mussels and, and consumes more oxygen than the other three species (Smith if they choose to oviposit, insert a long ovipositor into the mus- et al. 2001; Mills et al. 2005). These and other differences among sel exhalant siphon to place their eggs deep inside the mussel mussels may be important for the survival of bitterling eggs and gill cavity. Males fertilize the eggs by releasing sperm into the embryos, because the most important source of their mortality inhalant siphon of the mussel, so that water filtered by the mus- is egg ejection from the mussel gills and suffocation (Mills and sel carries the sperm to the eggs. Preoviposition sperm releases, Reynolds 2002; Kitamura 2005). whereby males ejaculate into the siphon of a mussel before a fe- Host mussels have evolved counteradaptations that enable male spawns, are a common feature of male courtship. One to them to eject developing bitterling eggs and embryos (Smith six large elliptical yolk-rich eggs are laid during each spawning. et al. 2004); mussels rapidly contract their valves and expel The eggs hatch in 36 h and embryos develop inside the mussel for a stream of water that can dislodge bitterling eggs and em- three to six weeks before departing as actively swimming juve- bryos from their gills. Bitterling make sophisticated oviposition 3048 EVOLUTION OCTOBER 2010 BITTERLING-MUSSEL COEVOLUTION decisions that limit ejections (Smith et al. 2000; Mills and This prediction derives from the unequal costs of parasitism for Reynolds 2002).
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